2020 Heartland International Film Festival

Indy Shorts Award Winners 2

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124 minutes. This program offers a special opportunity to view winners from the 2020 Indy Shorts International Film Festival (July 21-26, 2020)! These short films span categories from Narrative, Documentary, Animated, Heartland Horror, Comedy, Indiana Spotlight, and High School Film Competition. The following films are included in the program:


CAMP ALEC - Overall / Documentary Short Film: Audience Choice Winner

  • At a summer camp for non-speaking kids who rely on electronic tablets to communicate, children from across the country learn to read and write, finding the words they need to pursue their dreams. Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


A PIECE OF CAKE - Comedy: Audience Choice Winner

  • When a desperate father discovers his daughter’s favorite cake decoration is illegal, he must make the ultimate parenting choice: break a birthday promise or break the law?Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


STITCHING A LIFE: THE STORY OF TRUDIE STROBEL - High School Film Competition: Audience Choice Winner (The Righteous Conversations Project, Harvard-Westlake Summer Program, Los Angeles, CA)

  • When a child survivor of the Holocaust receives a packet of beads in a Displaced Persons Camp, her mother teaches her to embroider a goose. One day this simple act will save her life again. Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


BROKEN BIRD - Best Directorial Debut 

  • A biracial girl caught between two worlds prepares for her Bat Mitzvah and adulthood. Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


THE PRESENT - Narrative Short Film: Audience Choice Winner

  • A seemingly easy father-daughter shopping trip is not so simple in the landscape of checkpoints, soldiers, and roadblocks. Content Advisory: Language


SONNIE - Indiana Spotlight: Audience Choice Winner

  • Carrying the burden of misfortune throughout his life, a single father seeks redemption as he raises his son. Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE - Best Documentary Student Film (Concordia University, Canada)

  • Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief and intergenerational trauma. Content Advisory: Mature Themes


O28 - Best Animated Student Film (Supinfocom Rubika, France)

  • In Lisbon, a German couple rides the legendary n°28 tramway, but must react swiftly when the brakes give out and they embark on a vertiginous race...with a baby on board. Content Advisory: Suitable for All Ages


DA YIE - Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short Film, Academy Award® Qualifier

  • On a sunny day in Ghana, a foreigner approaches two children and takes them on an unexpected trip. The three of them get along so well that "Bogah", the foreigner, starts to question his initial intentions… Content Advisory: Mature Themes, Violence
  • Runtime
    19 minutes